SunChild Festival News
After the announcement of SunChild Festival we got overwhelming responses from many national and international organizations, schools and individuals from neighboring countries like Iran, Turkey or Georgia. Many people and organizations are ready to contribute to SunChild Festival with their own activities and with films, photos, works of art or music.
In order to canalise all these new approaches and to create a stabile and serious forum where all of them could be presented in an appropriate way, we need more time. Especially the international part of the festival needs now – after so many responses – a more thorough preparation. So after negotiations with our partners we just decided to split our activities.
Splitting the festival enables us to fulfil our mission with the seriousness and competence which should be expected by organisers of such an important, large scale event.
SunChild Environmental Festival will now have two parts:
First part of the Festival will be held – as already announced – from 1st to 15th of April. This first part is a combination of local events which are organised by FPWC, SunChild NGO and local partners. In these two weeks there will be concerts, a march for environment, tree-planting and environmental-cleaning events in different parts of Armenia. The children who are already active in the FPWC school-projects will be involved in all these activities.
These big public events will help to raise public awareness for the environmental problems of Armenia.
Second part of the Festival will be held from 6th to 10th of October 2007. This part will be dedicated to creating an international/regional, cross-border platform for an environmental movement in the Southern-Caucasus. This part of the festival will combine international workshops, a regional/international environmental film-program, a national and international children’s film-program (children made films from all over the world and films made by children, which are active in FPWC school-projects!) and nature-photo exhibitions (photos shot by children, which are active in FPWC school-projects and professional photographers).
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Call for Entries
The Deadline for application for all three film programs: Regional Environmental Film Program, Children Film Program and International Informational Program is August 15, 2007.
The prize fund of the festival contemplates awards in three categories in Regional Environmental Film Program.
ü The best regional film-1000 euro
ü The best environmental film -500 euro
ü The best wildlife film – 500 euro
The entry forms and regulation of the festival. can be downloaded on our web-site www.fpwc.org
Feel free to contact us for any further information ([email protected]).
We are looking forward to your films. JOIN SUN CHILD!!!
Call for Experts
The organizers of SUN CHILD first regional environmental festival are happy to invite you to cooperation within the framework of Festival Workshop Program.
The Workshop Program will be conducted in the following format:
ü Workshop on Advocacy Coalition building and Networking
Panel discussions, invited speakers, presentation of practical tools and success stories, preparation of action plans for future activities in the region.
ü “Exhibition of advocacy tools”
The exhibition aims at encouraging public participation in environmental decision-making. The exhibition will be held in several rooms, showing the advocacy campaigns, successful tools, stories etc.
ü “Deconstructing the concrete”
Artists, film-makers, writers, architects and public activists are coming together to learn how we can change the environment: European experience, contemporary approaches to public issues.
ü “Eco- tourism exhibition”
The exhibition aims at promoting local communities projects on Ecotourism, presentation of tour-agencies’ products, presentation of international projects on eco- tourism implemented in the region.
We appeal to all interested parties to confirm their interest in participation till August 15, 2007.